Re: The shortest possible sequence match with Lua regular expressions

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@...>]

Peter Cawley wrote:
> > With the pattern '(/.-/)$', you're asking Lua to match a forward
> > slash, then match as few characters as possible such that what then
> > follows is a forward slash followed by the end of the string. After
> > the first forward slash in the pattern is matched against the first
> > forward slash in the input, the minimum amount which can be captured
> > to get a forward slash followed by the end of the input is the entire
> > of the input.
> >      
Thank you for the answers.  I will forward the information.

Josh